"Jokes are better than war. Even the most……" — George Mikes
"Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars."
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George Mikes
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71 Quotes by George Mikes
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I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that…
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent…
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To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
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Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease -…
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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view…
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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language.…
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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never…
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More Aggressive Quotes
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
— Gary Bauer
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild…
— Casey Affleck
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of…
— Jo Brand
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player.…
— Greg Norman
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As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of…
— Johan Galtung
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages.…
— Barney Frank
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I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first…
— Jarome Iginla
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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
— Earl Blaik
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain,…
— Mark Twain
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